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OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau has said science, gender equality and preparing Canadians for the jobs of the future will be key themes in Tuesday’s federal budget. Here are some more det...

The 2018 class to be inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame is an impressive one. The group was announced Monday at press conferences in Red Deer, Calgary and Edmonton. The list of inductees in...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says if his party forms government in 2019, it will follow Donald Trump’s lead and recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Scheer’s declara...

OTTAWA - Tuesday’s federal budget is expected to detail how the Liberal government will financially manage their planned increase in immigration over the next three years. The Liberals last fall...

LANSING, Mich. - Victims of imprisoned former sports doctor Larry Nassar helped unveil what they described Monday as a sweeping rewrite of Michigan laws related to childhood sexual abuse, saying the c...

VANCOUVER - A port worker says he suspected large plumes of oil that were shining on the surface of the water in Vancouver’s harbour nearly three years ago was bunker fuel, based on the smell. A...

Toronto journalist Tanya Talaga won the $30,000 RBC Taylor Prize on Monday and dedicated her speech to the subjects of the book she wishes she “did not have to write” - seven Indigenous yo...

HALIFAX - Police say they have no evidence to support allegations published on a Lebanese website of a “heinous crime” in the death of a Lebanese Canadian student at Saint Mary’s Uni...

WOLFVILLE, N.S. - Acadia University has launched a formal investigation into complaints against a professor over controversial comments he made on social media and in the classroom. Heather Hemming, v...

An Alberta-based Health Canada-approved licensed producer of medical cannabis is expanding its operations into Olds. Sundial Growers Inc. has announced an $11 million private debt financing arrangemen...